This week: a quick roundup of releases, a summary of my thoughts about Percona Live Europe 2017 Dublin, links to look at and upcoming appearances. Oracle OpenWorld happened in San Francisco this past week, and there were lots of MySQL talks there as well (and a good community reception). I have a bit on that as well (from afar).

Percona Live Europe Dublin

I arrived on Sunday and chose to rest for my tutorial on Monday. Ronald Bradford and I delivered a tutorial on MySQL Security, and in the morning we chose to rehearse. Percona Live Europe had a full tutorial schedule this year, albeit with one cancellation: MySQL and Docker by Giuseppe Maxia, whom we missed this conference. Check out his blog for further posts about MySQL, Docker, and SQL Roles in MySQL 8!

We had the welcome reception at Sinott’s Bar. There was a large selection of food on each table, as well as two drinks for each of us. It was lively, and I think we overtook most of the basement. Later that evening, there were drinks around the hotel bar, as people started to stream in for Tuesday’s packed schedule!

Tuesday was the conference kickoff, with Peter Zaitsev doing the opening keynote on the state of the open source database ecosystem. The bonus of this keynote was also the short 5-minute talks that would help you get a pick on the important topics and themes around the conference. I heard good things about this from attendees. While most people attended the talks, I spent most of my day in meetings! Then the Community Dinner (thank you Oracle for sponsoring), where we held this year’s Lightning Talks (and plenty more to drink). A summary of the social events is at Percona Live Europe Social.

Wednesday morning we definitely wanted to start a few minutes later, considering people were streaming in slower thanks to the poor weather (yes, it rained all day). The State of the Dolphin ensured we found out lots of new things coming to MySQL 8.0 (exciting!), then the sponsor keynote by Continuent given by MC Brown, followed by a database reliability engineering panel with the authors of Database Reliability Engineering Charity Majors and Laine Campbell. Their book signing went quickly too – they have many fans. We also heard from Pepper Media on their happy journey with Percona. Another great day of talks before the evening reception (which had less folk, since people were flying off that evening). Feel free to also read Matthias Crauwels, Percona Live Europe 2017 Review.

Percona Live Europe 2017 Dublin had over 350+ attendees, over 140+ speakers – all in a new location! If you have any comments please feel free to shoot me an email.

Oracle OpenWorld from Afar

It’s unclear if this will also be what MySQL gets eventually, but we have in the MySQL world lossless semi-sync replication. Amazon RDS for MySQL is still DRBD based, and Google Cloud SQL does use semisync – but we need to check further if this is lossless semisync or not.

Nice to see a Percona contribution to remove InnoDB buffer pool mutex get accepted, and apparently it was done the right way. This is sustainable engineering: fix and contribute back upstream!

I was particularly interested in StorageTapper released by Uber to do real-time MySQL change data streaming and transformation. The slide deck is worth a read as well.

Booking.com also gave a talk. My real takeaway from this was about why MySQL is strong: “thousands of instances, a handful of DBAs.” Doug Henschen also talks about a lot of custom automation capabilities, the bonus of which is many are probably already open source. There are some good talks and slide decks to review.

Time Series Database Lectures – Fall 2017 is the CMU Database Group focusing on time series database internals, with recorded videos. Highly recommended. At Percona, we’ve been watching time series databases getting popular and have made them one of our themes for the Percona Live conferences in 2017.

Upcoming appearances

Percona’s website keeps track of community events, to see where to listen to a Perconian speak. My upcoming appearances are:

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Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team for MariaDB Server in 2009, worked in MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within many open source communities, and has spoken on the conference circuit.